- Course: Mondays 3-5pm 144 Wilkeson Quad
- Office Hours: Mondays 3-5pm, 120 Wilkeson Quad
August 31, 2015
R is a dialect of the S language and environment developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T) by John Chambers and colleagues (the same group that developed C and UNIX©)
Over 6k packages! Task Views organize packages by topic: [http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/]
"… all the code and data used to recreate Mann’s original analysis has been made available to the public […] in R" Matthew Pocernich, R news 6/4, 10/31/06
Packages: sp, maptools, rgeos, raster, ggmap
Example: species range overlays source
Example: Visualizing Data with basemaps with ggmap source
For BIG jobs:
multi-core processors / high performance computing
But there are other options…
Mac, Windows, Linux, and over the web (via RStudio Server)
Adapted from Gandrud (2014) Reproducible Research with R and RStudio.